Belomorkanal - Sources

A small selection of sources relating to the Belomorkanal and the GULAG in the collections of the IISH:

Belomorsko-Baltijskij Kanal imeni Stalina. Istorija stroitel'stva. 1931-1934 gg. Pod red. M.Gor'kogo, L.Averbacha, S. Firina. B.m., OGIZ "Istorija fabrik i zavodov", 1934. (Call. nr R665/23)

Jak. Rykacev. Inzenery Belomorstroja. Moskva, 1934. Biblioteka "Ogonek", 16. (Call nr. Bro 3785/10)

Gulag v Karelii. Sbornik dokumentov i materialov. 1930-1941. Petrozavodsk, 1992. (Call nr. 1995/1095)

The GULAG press, 1920-1937. Collection of microfilms, containing 'news' bulletins, posters, literary journals, albums and booklets, from the collections of the Nauchnaia Biblioteka Gosudarstvennogo Arkhiva Rossiiskoi Federatsii.

Irina Jur'evna Novichenko, with S.S. Vilenskij, A.I. Kokurin, G.V. Atmashkina (comp.), A.N. Jakovlev (ed.), Deti GULAGa, 1918-1956. Dokumenty, Rossija XX vek. (Children of the GULAG, 1918-1956. Documents. The 20th century Russia) Moskva: Mezhdunarodnyj fond Demokratija, 2002. (Call. nr. 2002/3171)

Memorial. A collection of 86 microfilms from the archives of Memorial, Moscow, mostly memoirs of former victims of Stalinism.

Vozvrascenie. Collection of 22 microfilms from the archives of Vozvrascenie, Moscow, containing unpublished manuscripts (mostly memoirs), diaries, lettes , literary works and photographs of former prisoners of the Gulag.

Kanal imeni Stalina. A documentary video with records of the digging of the canal. (Callnr. BG V3/51)

Photo album with original photographs of the 17th Congress of the CPSU Jan.1934 (Call nr. BG T2/432)

Further reading:

Cynthia Ruder, Making History for Stalin; the Story of the Belomor Canal (Miami, 1998)

Frank Westerman, Ingenieurs van de ziel (Amsterdam/Antwerpen, 2002)

See also

Journalist Jelle Brandt Corstius about the Belomorkanal, a film made on the occasion of the IISH's 75th anniversary in 2010.